Min Kwon’s Laureate project, entitled America/Beautiful – Reimagining our Nation, Its Democracy and Civic Engagement through the Arts, aims to build and expand her America/Beautiful project.
Min Kwon, head of piano and professor in the Music Department, has been named Rutgers–New Brunswick Laureate. Kwon will hold the Laureate position through the 2026–27 academic year.
Jazz Studies student Kristin Field received the designation in the magazine’s March 2026 issue.
Faculty Brandon Williams says he realized early on that “music takes work.”
Music alum Brent Chancellor (MM’21) speaks to NPR about his latest album, featuring music rooted in data collected from plants at a Lewiston, NY, park.
The Rutgers Board of Governors acknowledged Rao’s “award-winning scholarship on a wide array of topics, including gender and music, sketch studies, musical modernism, cultural fusion and racial representation.”
Jazz radio station WBGO 88.3/Newark Public Radio invited several students to New York City to record selections that aired in April, as part of the station’s Jazz Appreciation Month celebration.
Undergrad Brandon Mejia will be part of Quilting Water, an international public art initiative that seeks to prompt artists and scholars to consider the relationship between ecological justice and racial justice.
Andrew Kosinski (BM’20) composed a hymn that has been performed by military bands in the nation’s capital at least four times this week as the country has honored and mourned the 39th president.
Rao has been honored “for her contributions to musicology, in particular her achievements in fostering cross-cultural dialogue between Anglophone music studies and music research in Chinese-speaking lands, as well as her efforts to bridge the divide between musicology and her home discipline of music theory.”